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When Are Women Responsible?

I can’t even guess how many times I’ve read about some so-called “mother” leaving her kids in cars to die in the heat, either because she “forgot” she had a child, or she was busy with partying, and then the sympathy goes to….the mother!

The same thing applies to women and their abusive “significant others” (choke). Recently, in North Carolina, a mother left her child in the care of a gang member. She knew he was a gang member when she made him her boyfriend-of-the- month. The self-declared Bloods gang member beat her 2-year-old son to death, with a combination of 41 blows, which ultimately burst his liver and caused his brain to bleed.

According to the report in The News & Observer, the murderer will spend the rest of his life in jail, and there’s no mention of the mother being held on any charges whatsoever: not negligence, not child endangerment….nothing.

When informing me of this story, one of my listeners wrote: “I am incensed that this woman was not fined or jailed as well. I guess our society no longer expects moms to protect their innocent, helpless children. No doubt, this is what the abortion mentality has done to us.”

I thought about her comment, and it holds water. Mothers farm out their kids to daycare, nannies, and baby-sitters. The “feminista” movement talks about women having power, yet treats women as helpless victims of sexual harassment when they get meaningless comments about their butts, and suggests that only men are responsible for domestic violence.

Power and responsibility are two sides of the same coin….or should be. To leave a child with a known, self-acknowledged gang member should be considered a criminal act, because it clearly puts a child in harm’s way.